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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) today released a new series of 2.5" hard drives for notebooks and consumer electronics offering low power requirements and low noise of operation. Hitachi Travelstar 4K120 supports the proprietary Smooth Stream technology as well as Hitachi Voltage Efficiency Regulator (HiVERT) that is claimed to reduce energy consumption by 30% comparing to previous solutions.

Specifications:

120/100/80/60/40 GB capacity

9,5mm height

4200 rpm

99-95 g weight

2/1 glass plates

4/3/2 GMR heads

Sustains 1000g/1ms non-operational and 300g/2ms operational shocks

11/13 ms average read/write

7.1ms average seek

0.15W standby power, 0.45W energy-saving mode power

ATA-6 UDMA-5 interface

2.3-2.0 bel standby noise, 2.7-2.4 bel operating noise

Hitachi Travelstar 4K120 series are already shipping to selected customers, wide availability is expected in August.